Songket Bali

Linda S. McIntosh received a Master of Arts in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and a doctorate from Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada, focusing on traditional Thai and Lao textiles. In the past twenty years, her research has expanded to textiles from other parts of Southeast Asia. She has published extensively, and her major publications include Art of Southeast Asian Textiles: The Tilleke & Gibbins Collection (2012) and Thread and Fire: Textiles and Jewellery from the Isles of Indonesia and Timor (2020). She recently contributed a chapter on Southeast Asian ikat to Global Ikat: Roots and Routes of a Textile Technique (2023).